Finding referenced files

I am unable to get my referenced files to re-link to the original RAW file on my external hard drive. I have gone through many post and have experience relocating referenced files which works great when you can actually get to that screen. I have tried all the repairs in the repair menu with no luck. I click on the preview of the picture and select "locate referenced files" and I get "No referenced Files". If I go to File>Locate Referenced files I get "Unavailable original files cannot be relocated". I seem to be stuck in a error loop and I'm not sure why it won't me just redirect it to the correct file? I know I can reimport but I don't want to loose all the adjustments I've made to various pictures. I know the files are on my hard drive. It's also very strange because it magiaclly happened to library's that have worked fine in the past and that I haven't touched in some time. I keep my pictures on an external hard drive and have the latest updates of Aperture and OS.

Are the files in question really referenced files and not managed?
I click on the preview of the picture and select "locate referenced files" and I get "No referenced Files".
That error message usually will appear, when you try to locate a referenced file for managed files.
If I go to File>Locate Referenced files I get "Unavailable original files cannot be relocated".
And that error message will occur, when you use the command "File > Relocate Original", not when you try to use the command "locate referenced Files".
From the symptoms you describe, I suspect that the files in question might be managed files, but Aperture has lost the connection to these managed files. Unfortunately, Aperture has no tools to fix broken references to managed files, because that is not supposed to happen.
Check,if you can find the originals in question inside the Aperture library. Ctrl-click the APerture library, select "Show Package Contents" from the pop-up menu, and then browse the "Masters" folder, if your missing originals are inside. The originals are filed by the dates of the import session.
Regards
Léonie

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MyClass.class -----compiles.
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MyClass.java in the wrong package. Using verbose option with javac shows this.
So I move it to some other directory and everything works.
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Integer: 2
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Suppose we go back to how the files were arranged before I moved the MyClass.java file and
I change the Test.java file by adding
package pkg2;
statement to it.
Now everything compiles
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MyClass.java Test.java ---I have deleted pkg and .class files
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package pkg2;
import pkg.*;
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obj.prn(2);
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package pkg;
public class MyClass {
public void prn(int x){
System.out.println("Integer: "+x);
# javac -d . MyClass.java
# javac -d . Test.java
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MyClass.java Test.java pkg/ pkg2/
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Integer: 2
Why isn't the MyClass.java file causing any problems now?
Using the verbose option with javac shows that the compiler goes straight for the pkg/MyClass.class.
My readings of Core Java Horstmann tell me that the compiler always looks in the current directory. javac documentation also doesn't help. I know that the documentation recommends that the source file locations should match the package statements.
I'm just trying to learn how javac finds referenced files.
Any help??
Thanks a load in advance.

I know that the
documentation recommends that the source file
locations should match the package statements.This is not merely a recommendation, it is a requirement.
Both javac and java find classes by traversing the classpath. The classpath should contain directories (or jar files) that correspond to the top of a (part of the) package hierarchy.
For example, if the Java code for your class is in a file C:\src\pkg\MyClass.java, and MyClass.java declares the class to be in package pkg, the classpath should contain C:\src. Classes are then found by transforming their package declaration into a directory structure.
Please note that javac works on files, not classes. Therefore it is necessary to specify the full filenames of the files you want to compile, even if you have specified the classpath. By default, javac will put compiled class files in the same location as their sources, so the classpath for the java command should also contain C:\src.
The exception to the rule is when all classes for the program are in the default package (i.e., they do NOT contain a package statement). In that case, it is possible for javac (and I believe java as well) to find all classes in the current directory, so it will "just work".
You can specify the classpath using the -cp parameter to both javac and java.
Hope this helps.

How can my own hard drive be considered off line to find referenced files?

my iPhoto library for some reason could not be imported to Aperture when I converted to Aperture.
However, I selected the option to create a referenced library and it worked fine.
I upgraded my hard drive from 160 to 750 at a professional apple reseller and they copied all of my data, programs etc as well.
While I never checked to see if this was the case before, becuase I had no reason to check for it, I notice now that all of the aperture thumbnails have the "reference offline" icon and when i try to "locate reference", I can do so, but Aperture still considers my own hard drive offline!!! How's that for strange.

Every hard drive has a volume name (they also have a UUID but I don't think Aperture cares about that.) If the new drive was not given the same name as your old drive then as far as Aperture is concerned, the drive it's looking for is not present (it's looking for a drive with a specific name and not finding it.)
While YOU know that all the data on the old hard drive was copied to the new hard drive, Aperture doesn't know that (and makes no assumptions). So if the volume name it's looking for isn't found, then the drive is "offline". Aperture is working as it should.
You could rename the hard drive back to the original name, but then that would just cause it lose all any new 'referenced' masters you added since upgrading the drive.
To fix:
You'll need to reconnect the masters. In the lower right corner of the thumbnail you should see a small icon which ordinarily has a tiny rectangle with an arrow pointing away (indicating this image is a "referenced" master). If the master is missing you'll have a little orange triangle with the "!" inside it (indicating a problem).
In the main menu, select "File" -> "Locate Referenced Files..."
A box will appear and you can check the box which reads "Show Only Files Not Found" (this will hide all the files which are currently fine so that you only have to deal with the files that have a problem.)
In the lower part of the panel is filesystem browser. You can navigate to the directory drive & directory where these files are located and click "Reconnect" or, if they're all in the same place, "Reconnect All".
Pick "Done" when you've finished.
If you don't like using "referenced" masters, you can tell Aperture to bring the masters into the Aperture Library so that it will manage the files for you (and avoid this problem in the future). In the main menu pick "File" -> "Consolidate Masters". You'll be given the choice to "copy" the files (it'll copy the masters but still leave the old files back in their original locations... but Aperture will no longer need those originals.) or you can "move" the files (Aperture will copy them into the library then delete the original after the copy is completed... effectively "migrating" the masters into your library and cleaning up the originals when it's done.
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Tim

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I moved some of my masters to an external drive. I recently tried to move the masters for one project back into my main Aperture library, but 15 of the 916 masters in this particular project did not move back. In Aperture I'm getting the little "The referenced image’s master has not been found." badge on these 15 images.
The master is still resident on the external drive, but the value in the "File Name:" metadata field in Aperture does not match the file name on the external drive. The file name on the external drive is the correct and original file name, but I have no idea why Aperture has a different value (e.g. IMG_1128 29.CR2 vs IMG_1128.CR2).
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Find a referenced file

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No, but somehow the issue has been resolved for me. I moved quite a bit of photos around to different (new) albums and changed some dates on photos. Somehow there's no more message about any referenced files. I'm not sure how it happened though.

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New user here. Trying to import iPhoto 9.4.2 libraries into Aperture 3.4.3 as referenced files. When accessing File>Import>Library, it finds the iPhoto library just fine, but then imports it as Master files. No option that I can find to leave the photos in place on the file system. All the literature says their should be an option to choose, but I never get that option. What?

All the literature says their should be an option to choose, but I never get that option.
That has been true for the previous Aperture versions. Now Aperture simply treats the original image files exactly as they are in the imported library. Referenced images will stay referenced, managed will be imported as managed. But you can always relocate the imported managed images afterwards by using "File > Relocate".
Regards
Léonie

I have one folder with several projects all of which Aperure can not find the original. I do not use referenced files. I can't make any adjustments like cropping etc. What can I do to print any of these photos?

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I have one folder with several projects all of which Aperure can not find the original.
Have you checked inside your Aperture library, if the original files are still there?
Try to find out, when the images in those projects have been originally imported, then open the Aperture library by ctrl-clicking it and using the command "Show package contents" from the pop-up menu. In the window that will open, select the folder "Masters" and browse the contents. You need to find the subfolder with the year you imported the images, then the folders with the month and the day.
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Every once in a while I will go into a project see the "broken link" icon on my previews. In Finder I check the location I have all my images stored (and initially referenced) on an external HD. They are there.
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Thanks. Sorry, for the delay to answer your questions:
I'm the only one managing the files, and it has happened quite a few times now. The files are in multiple projects ranging from recent imports to projects from a few years ago.
I didn't need to use "File→Relocate Master ..." just the "File→Locate Referenced Files" because my masters are still intact on my working HD. It says that my previous location was on "Volumes/Time Machine/photography/...etc." when I always import masters to "Volumes/My book/photography/...etc"
Does Aperture notice if I move master files because my thought is that Aperture is noticing my TM copying files to another HD and then referencing those instead of my original working HD I import to. Then, the next time I open Aperture it cannot reference the Time Machine files.
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File paths and archiving (and referenced files).

I've come to the stage where I need to start using referenced files (out of disk space on my laptop) and also start archiving projects. One of my plans was to start keeping an off-site backup of all the originals in case something really bad happened. I'm also going to have on-site backup of projects. But for the off-site originals I would like to have some simple way of finding the photos in case something bad happens, my idea was to simply create a PDF from the list view where I could see the photo and the file path to where it's stored (I plan to store them in simple year-month-day hierarchy).
The reason why I'm not going to archive the projects off-site is simply the cost, I did a test yesterday and it looks like just storing the originals would be approx 1/3 in size of the projects.
If someone has a better idea of how to handle this please let me knoe

I'll try to explain.
About the cost: Hard disk space is really cheap and I can not see how the cost should be that expensive. This is based on your statement that you still have your images on your laptop and that itself limits the amount of space hence a rather small library.
When it comes to backing up your projects you have several options. First, if you really want to be cheap about hard disk space (I think you should not since your images really are priceless) you can export projects of your referenced images and not consolidate the images into the exported project. Not to consolidate vs. consolidate images on export really makes a difference in the exported project size. On the other hand, not consolidate images on export of a project makes you back up your images separately, which leads to more work.
My advice is then; buy two disks (preferable three disks), and export your projects with the images consolidated into one of them and start using the other one with your referenced images.
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Even though I have the originals on my NAS, all my processed versions (4 and 5* photos) are in my Aperture Library and I hate to lose those.
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I migrated my MAC Aperture Libraries to a separate external drive and lost some of the references to the Master.
How is your NAS formatted, where your original masters are stored? And how is the external drive formatted that holds your Aperture library?
Your Aperture library needs to be on a drive formatted Mac OS X extended, Journaled. If the drive should not have that formatting, move the Aperture library to disk with the coorrect format.
If you cannot reconnect originals, that are clearly there, the reason may be, that your Aperture library needs repairing, see: Repairing and Rebuilding Your Aperture Library: Aperture 3 User Manual
I'd try to repair permissions and to repair the library, before trying to reconnect again.
Since you want to consolidate all originals in your Aperture library, I'd try to copy the originals that cannot be recoonected, to the same drive that holds yor aperture libryr and try to reconnect them there, then consolidate them from there. It can be, that the network connection of the NAS is not reliable enough.
Regards
Léonie

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